Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
90 Of the Garments of the Laplanders.
their breaft , and a little below their breast ends in a narrow point. This
cloth, efpecially before, and Sometimes about the neck, they adorn with
studs , engraved with divers forms , as alSo with bracelets, which the richer
have of fiiver and gold, the poorer of tin and Alchymy. After this manner,
in Short as he uSes , Johannes Tornsus deScribes them, the women do So deck
themfelves with gold and Silver that their breasts Shine like Sheilds, but thoSe
that cannot reach Silver, uSe copper and Alchymy. Now theSe studs they uSe
to have not only about their neck, but upon their gowns where they draw
them together, and lace them; and not only in Single but double and triple
rows. They cover their heads with a low kind of kercheif,’plain at top,
round, and of red color, fome of the richer fort on extraordinary times
add alfo a strip of linnen for ornament, as at their Fairs, Weddings, and
Feasts. Upon their legs they wear stockins, which reaich no lower then
their ankles, but that only in the Summer. Their Shoes are like the mens,
add fo alfo bound to their feetlwith thongs. The womens habit in the
Win-ter is:almoft the fame with the mens, For they have the Muddas made of the
skins of Rain-deers , and at that time wear breeches tooTbyreafon of the
deep Snows, storms, and badnefs of the waies : nay and cover their head
with the fame caps men do, which fort of caps they wear alfo Sometimes
in the Summer to defend them from the gnats : thefe caps they tie about
their heads, and the lower part i which would otherwife fall about their
Shoulders, they make to Stand out like the brims of our hats. And thefe
are the garments as well of Virgins’as married women , for both ufe the
fame attire, neither is ithere any Sign in their habit whereby to distinguish
them . Befides thefe garments wherewith they clothe themfelves in the day,
they have alfo other which they ufe a nights, fu<rh as are called night-cloathes,
for they have no feather beds : and without all doubt Olaus Magnus is
mistaken who in his 4. Book faies they had. Their night garments were of 2
forts, fuch as they lay upon, or fuch as they did cover themfelves with,
which alfo differ according to the Summer and Winter Seafons. Thofe they
lie upon are Rain-deers skins, 2 or 3 of which they fling upon Some birch
leaves, which they ufe instead of mates , without beds, upon the ground,
that they may lie Softer, fo that they lie upon the skins without Sheets, of
the ufe of which they are quite ignorant. They cover themfelves in the
Summer with blankets, which they call raaner or ryer, and with thefe
blankets they cover not only their whole body, but alfo their heads too, to
avoid the gnats, with which they are extremly infested in the night time.
But that they may breath with more freedom , and not be
inconvenienced with the weight of thefe blankets, they fometimes hang them up
over their head with ropes faftned to the top of their Hut. Thefe are their
Summer coverlets: but in the Winter they first throw about them the skins
of Sheep or Rain-deer,and on them the blankets now mentioned. And there
is one thing more worth our notice, that they lie under thefe both Winter
and Summer stark naked, and make no ufe of linnen. And fo much for the
Garments of the Laplanders. I Shall add the Figures of both Sexes habited
aftser their manner. The woman hath a child in her arms, in a LaplandiSh
Cradle.
CHAP.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
